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Quest
Where Eagles Prey
A World of Warcraft quest in Tiragarde Sound. Facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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You start the quest by picking up a pile of fireworks. The fireworks are not inside the castle area but just to the right of entrance ramp. Once you click the fireworks then you can start blowing stuff up.
Obvious pun on "Where Eagles Dare", a Novel by Alistair MacLean.
Quest facts
Quest ID52475
The Blizzard quest API has no row for this quest, so its quest text and rewards are not shown - only what the client game files carry.
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(52475))
Requirements
Quest typeFaction Assault World Quest
Read from the quest filters in the current retail client build.
Objectives
- Siege Cannons destroyed x 8
- South Zeppelin
- Siege Cannon hidden x 8
- West Zeppelin destroyed
- West Zeppelin
- South Zeppelin destroyed
- Defeat 8 targets in Tiragarde Sound
Grizzek's Rocket Hop- Use 2 objects in Tiragarde Sound
Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #895 79.2 38.2
Coordinates
- Objective areaTiragarde Sound 79.2, 38.2
/way #895 79.2 38.2
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the Tiragarde Sound map
- Free Bird about 220 yards
- Death from Two Sides about 220 yards
- Targeting a Turncoat about 250 yards
- A Lesson on Trust about 250 yards
- Patching Up the Rear about 250 yards
- A Boralus Triple Threat about 250 yards
- The Ashvane Trading Company about 320 yards
- Relics of Ritual about 360 yards
- A Well Placed Portal about 360 yards
- Tidesage Teachings about 360 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on Tiragarde Sound, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
Getting there
Flight points closest to the quest’s first objective area marker on Tiragarde Sound:
- Mariner's Row, Tiragarde Sound
- Eastpoint Station, Tiragarde Sound
- Bridgeport, Tiragarde Sound
- Timberfell Outpost, Tiragarde Sound
Straight-line distances in yards between the quest’s own map markers (QuestPOI) and the client’s flight-point positions (TaxiNodes); flight paths and terrain are not modelled.
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Where this quest fits
Other storylines on the Tiragarde Sound map
- Trouble in Tiragarde Sound
- The Shadow Over Anglepoint
- A Mountain of Ice
- The Norwington Estate
- Beware the Daughter of the Sea
- Freehold
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.